A Direct-Conversion Digital Beamforming Array Receiver with 800 MHz Channel Bandwidth at 28 GHz using Xilinx RF SoC

Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, Najath Akram, Elias Alwan, Arjuna Madanayake, Soumyajit Mandal, Theodore S. Rappaport

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Abstract

This paper discusses early results associated with a fully-digital direct-conversion array receiver at 28 GHz. The proposed receiver makes use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics, including the receiver chain. The design consists of a custom 28 GHz patch antenna sub-array providing gain in the elevation plane, with azimuthal plane beamforming provided by real-time digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms running on a Xilinx Radio Frequency System on Chip (RF SoC). The proposed array receiver employs element-wise fully-digital array processing that supports ADC sample rates up to 2 GS/second and up to 1 GHz of operating bandwidth per antenna. The RF mixed-signal data conversion circuits and DSP algorithms operate on a single-chip RFSoC solution installed on the Xilinx ZCU1275 prototyping platform.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538695494
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2019 - Tel-Aviv, Israel
Duration: Nov 4 2019Nov 6 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2019
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel-Aviv
Period11/4/1911/6/19

Keywords

  • 5G
  • Beamforming
  • MIMO
  • Multibeams
  • mm-wave

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems and Management
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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